Affluent Travellers Are Bypassing The Beach For A Wilder Alternative
“You’re lucky,” my guide Norriah tells me as he drives our 4x4 past thousand-year-old baobabs a short while later. “Cheetahs are triii-cky to find.” Tricky even for Norriah, a native of the Etsha villages, who’s spent…
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How Author Audrey Niffenegger Predicted The Future With Her Sequel To ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’
Art feels like the time in which it’s made. Even a novel set in the future has a strong flavour of the present; I knew this before I began writing Life Out of Order , just as I knew I couldn’t predict the future and…
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At The Albies, Amal Clooney’s Glamour Serves A Greater Purpose
“Individuals have to pull it that way.” The 48-year-old has built a career on that conviction. One of the most accomplished human rights barristers working today, she is also Professor of Practice in International Law at…
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Short Velvet Nails Are Autumn’s Most Touchable Manicure Trend
The manicurist is notoriously the progenitor of all great runway manis (you can thank her for the opalescent nails at Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel and McQueen’s rain droplet nails this past fashion month ). But it’s her…
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Bar Coyo
Calling it a speakeasy might be a bit of a stretch, given that the entrance is a bright stained-glass door right inside the restaurant. Inside though, it’s far calmer than the restaurant’s weekday crush. Tucked just off…
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“It’s Never Simply A Fashion Shoot”: In Conversation With Anna Wintour And “Amazing Grace” Coddington
It never worked for me,” said Wintour), and The September Issue (“We had no conflict there; it was all for the cameras”), as they batted memories back and forth while an audience of friends, from Manolo Blahnik and…
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What Each ‘Celebrity Traitors’ Cast Member’s Wardrobe Says About Them
Best of all, though, is The Traitors . And while I’m slightly more partial to the civilian version, the celeb edition is a worthy enough substitute to tide me over. So far, however, the action in this year’s series has…
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Affluenza
Well actually maybe ‘plot twist’ isn’t right: it’s more that writer-director Sandberg is obsessed with the idea of bamboozling us, with each new scene in his play determinedly defying expectations and eliciting a bigger…
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Privileged and proud: how nepo babies took fashion month by storm
But the biggest trend had nothing to do with clothing. From New York and London to Milan and Paris, the shows were the ultimate proof of a nepo baby takeover. John Travolta's daughter, Ella Bleu, 26, made her Paris…
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The best cheap eats in London
We've given the list a seasonal spin and here you'll find some of the best cosy meals for embracing London in the autumn, with the iconic c hicken escalope sandwich at Scotti's Snack Bar in Clerkenwell, trad pie'n'mash…
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